Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opened the 26th annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure this mornng with a sly joke that must have had gossip columnists momentarily salivating.

"There is a very important man in my life," she said, standing on a stage near the National Mall above a throng of tens of thousands of people wearing pink. "He is my personal trainer, Tom."

With that, she introduced Thomas Tomlo, who also acts as a fitness advisor to the Race for the Cure, who led participants in a warm-up stretch.

The cause, however, is no joke for Rice or the millions of others who run, walk or sleep in every year to raise money for breast cancer research and public health programs. Rice's mother, Angelena, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1969, and died in 1985.

Rice, who travels next week to Paris and the Middle East, shared the stage with Ambassador Nancy Brinker, a breast cancer survivor and founder of the Race for the Cure, Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon, and DC mayor Adrian Fenty. The event in DC, which has one of the highest breast cancer mortality rates in the US, drew nearly 50,000 people.

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